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1. caffeine server
2. citalopram server
3. bt server
4. pfsense firewall
5. thionite laptop
6. debbie workstation
7. daniel workstation
8. luke workstation
9. hp laser printer

caffeine

Celeron 1.7, 512 Mb, 520 Gb HDD, running Debian Linux in a 2 RU case.

	New Rackmount Cases, May 2006. Click for larger images. I have the 12" Wyse VGA screen at the top, with a four port novaview KVM, then my pillaged Compaq server keyboard/mouse. Below that is a 16 port ethernet frame and management rail, then pfsense running on the Nokia IP330. The two rack cases are citalopram 1U, then caffeine 2U, and at the bottom is horse (left), which is the Canterbury LUG's shell server and mythtv backend on the right. Out of shot on the right is my 1.7KVA UPS and a crappy sun brand DDS1 4 tape stacker for backups. Also visable is the home laser printer, a LaserJet 2100 with jetdirect.
	New Rack, November 2004. Click for larger images. The rack itself is thanks to Mike Pearce, UoC Chemistry Department, and used to hold a Data General Nova, probably a Nova 4. I have the 12" Wyse VGA screen at the top, alongside a two port KVM, then my pillaged Compaq server keyboard/mouse. Below that is a 16 port ethernet frame and management rail, then m0n0wall, then behind all the black is caffeine, and at the bottom is horse, which is the Canterbury LUG's shell server. Beside caffeine is the newish 650 VA UPS. Since the photo was taken I've bridged two ports on m0n0wall and added a small switch.
	The face-view of a cupboard-mounted server. At the top is a micronet ethernet switch in a small 19" frame. Below that is the server proper, then a 12" Wyse branded VGA monitor. This dates from when the server was in a cupboard inside the house.
	An oblique shot to show perspective, and that the tray really is rail-mounted. This dates from when the server was in a cupboard inside the house.
	A vertical view downwards on the server. On the left is the mainboard, with PCI cards clearly visible. The parallel, USB, and PS/2 ports are not well supported, but no ATX case provides any more support. This dates from when the server was in a cupboard inside the house.

Uptime graph(thanks to Netcraft)

citalopram

Celeron 1200, 256 Mb ram, 1RU case. Used as a shitbox.

bt

bt started life as a bittorrent host. It lived on another IP so I could shape the traffic. Since then I reused the box as a mythtv backend.

P3 866, four 40 Gb IDE drives, 512 Mb ram, two Hauppauge PVR-150 tuner cards. 4 RU case (still to come)

pfSense

pfSense is the new firewall. It grew out of m0n0wall and does some cool stuff like Dual WAN, loadbalancing, OpenVPN and IPSEC, CARP etc etc.

More details at www.pfsense.org.

thionite

My laptop changes occasionally. It was a P166MMX with 160 Mb ram and two batteries, dual-booting Linux or Win98. Theres a separate page available here on installing Linux on this machine.

Then it was a Toshiba Satellite 4030 CDT with a Celeron 300 CPU, 192 Mb ram, and a 27 Gb drive again running linux or win98. Theres another page on this laptop at /laptop/satellite4030cdt/

Presently its a Dell Latitude L400 with a PIII 700 CPU, 256 Mb ram, and a 27 Gb drive again running debian linux or (rarely) windows XP. Theres a page on this laptop at /laptop/dellL400/

debbie

Celeron 2.4?, Windows XP

72 Gb IDE HD, 512 Mb ram, NVidia GeForce2 MX200, 17" Philips CRT

Also it has a wireless mouse.

This machine started life as a microATX or "microflexatx" Gateway branded PC. Then the on-board video card shat itself. The mainboard was non-standard and didn't take a normal microATX board. So now it is in a new standard case, with a standard motherboard, and a standard AGP nVidia video card. The morals are

1. Don't buy Gateway desktops.
2. Don't use on-board video cards for home machines.

daniel

P3 1GHz, 512 Mb, 36 Gb HDD, Debian Linux/Windows XP, 17" Gateway CRT.

Standard workstation - mostly used for games

This machine was deafening when I first assembled it. So I bought a Zalman "Flower" cooler and a couple of Vantec "Stealth" case fans from Ascent Computers in Wellington. The product arrived in 25 hours, from another island; that is Service!

luke

P3 1GHz, 512 Mb, 36 Gb HDD, Debian Linux, 15" NESO LCD.

Also it has a wireless keyboard.

Standard workstation - mostly almost exclusively for mythtvfrontend

This is really Luke's computer. We use it in the living room as a television.

HP

HP LaserJet 2100 Laser Printer. hp is a standard laser printer with 24 Mb ram, postscript SIMM and a 10baseT jetdirect ethernet card.